<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" version="2.0"><channel><title>Latest entries from rgcombs.blog-city.com</title><link>http://rgcombs.blog-city.com/</link><description></description><copyright>Copyright 2009 rgcombs.blog-city.com</copyright><generator></generator><lastBuildDate>Sat, 07 Nov 2009 04:14:00 GMT</lastBuildDate><image><title>Latest entries from rgcombs.blog-city.com</title><url>http://server1.blog-city.com/images/bc_v5_logo_small.gif</url><link>http://rgcombs.blog-city.com/</link></image><ttl>360</ttl><docs>http://backend.userland.com/rss</docs><item><title>Support Project Valour-IT</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://rgcombs.blog-city.com/support_project_valourit_1.htm</guid><link>http://rgcombs.blog-city.com/support_project_valourit_1.htm</link><pubDate>Fri, 06 Nov 2009 05:59:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://rgcombs.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=support%5Fproject%5Fvalourit%5F1</comments><dc:creator>rgcombs</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[I&#39;ve been meaning to sign up for this year&#39;s Project Valour-IT fundraiser all week, but haven&#39;t gotten around to it. Today, in the wake of the murderous attack at Ft. Hood, I&#39;ve made time. Project Valour-IT (Voice Activated Laptops...]]></description><category>donate</category><category>laptops</category><category>military</category><category>soldiers</category><category>soldiers angels</category></item><item><title>Happy Guy Fawkes Day!</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://rgcombs.blog-city.com/happy_guy_fawkes_day.htm</guid><link>http://rgcombs.blog-city.com/happy_guy_fawkes_day.htm</link><pubDate>Thu, 05 Nov 2009 19:37:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://rgcombs.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=happy%5Fguy%5Ffawkes%5Fday</comments><dc:creator>rgcombs</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Remember, remember the fifth of November Gunpowder, treason and plot. On this day in 1605, Guy Fawkes attempted (and failed) to blow up the British Houses of Parliament. He&#39;s been toasted ever since (in some circles, at least) as &quot;The last]]></description><category>britain</category><category>film</category><category>history</category></item><item><title>Sowell on the economics of medical care</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://rgcombs.blog-city.com/sowell_on_the_economics_of_medical_care.htm</guid><link>http://rgcombs.blog-city.com/sowell_on_the_economics_of_medical_care.htm</link><pubDate>Tue, 03 Nov 2009 22:39:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://rgcombs.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=sowell%5Fon%5Fthe%5Feconomics%5Fof%5Fmedical%5Fcare</comments><dc:creator>rgcombs</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Does the current debate about health care reform have you confused? Do the many arguments, counter-arguments, and conflicting claims leave you not knowing what to believe? If you&#39;re like most Americans, that may be because you know woefully ...]]></description><category>economics</category><category>health care</category><category>thomas sowell</category></item><item><title>Scozzafava surrenders</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://rgcombs.blog-city.com/scozzafava_surrenders.htm</guid><link>http://rgcombs.blog-city.com/scozzafava_surrenders.htm</link><pubDate>Sun, 01 Nov 2009 05:46:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://rgcombs.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=scozzafava%5Fsurrenders</comments><dc:creator>rgcombs</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Dede Scozzafava, the Republican candidate in the NY-23 special Congressional election, has suspended her campaign and freed those who endorsed and supported her &quot;to transfer their support as they see fit to do so.&quot; This is tremendous news.]]></description><category>congress</category><category>elections</category><category>new york</category></item><item><title>Vaccine shortage outrage</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://rgcombs.blog-city.com/vaccine_shortage_outrage.htm</guid><link>http://rgcombs.blog-city.com/vaccine_shortage_outrage.htm</link><pubDate>Sat, 31 Oct 2009 06:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://rgcombs.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=vaccine%5Fshortage%5Foutrage</comments><dc:creator>rgcombs</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[The local and national media are full of stories about the massive H1N1 vaccine shortage and canceled vaccination clinics. But I haven&#39;t seen any finger-pointing or even serious inquiries into why this has been such a cluster-f**k. Well, Be ...]]></description><category>bureaucracy</category><category>health care</category><category>media bias</category><category>obama</category></item><item><title>Flynn v. Holder: the fight for marrow cell liberation</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://rgcombs.blog-city.com/flynn_v_holder_the_fight_for_marrow_cell_liberation.htm</guid><link>http://rgcombs.blog-city.com/flynn_v_holder_the_fight_for_marrow_cell_liberation.htm</link><pubDate>Sat, 31 Oct 2009 03:57:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://rgcombs.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=flynn%5Fv%5Fholder%5Fthe%5Ffight%5Ffor%5Fmarrow%5Fcell%5Fliberation</comments><dc:creator>rgcombs</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[The Institute for Justice is one of my favorite non-profits. This &quot;merry band of libertarian litigators&quot; just keeps finding wonderful ways of using the courts and the court of public opinion to fight for individual liberty, especially ...]]></description><category>civil liberties</category><category>economics</category><category>human rights</category><category>institute for justice</category><category>litigation</category><category>medicine</category></item><item><title>ObamaCare vs. iPhone thinking</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://rgcombs.blog-city.com/obamacare_vs_iphone_thinking.htm</guid><link>http://rgcombs.blog-city.com/obamacare_vs_iphone_thinking.htm</link><pubDate>Fri, 30 Oct 2009 02:27:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://rgcombs.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=obamacare%5Fvs%5Fiphone%5Fthinking</comments><dc:creator>rgcombs</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[The Wall Street Journal has a wonderful opinion piece by Daniel Henninger that I think really explains why the polling numbers have gone so south on all the variations of ObamaCare (and on Obama and Congress, too): In a world defined by nearly ...]]></description><category>big government</category><category>democrats</category><category>health care</category><category>obama</category></item><item><title>A Time for Choosing</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://rgcombs.blog-city.com/a_time_for_choosing.htm</guid><link>http://rgcombs.blog-city.com/a_time_for_choosing.htm</link><pubDate>Thu, 29 Oct 2009 03:24:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://rgcombs.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=a%5Ftime%5Ffor%5Fchoosing</comments><dc:creator>rgcombs</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Yesterday was the 45th anniversary of the TV broadcast &quot;Rendezvous with Destiny,&quot; a 30-minute campaign commercial for Presidential candidate Barry Goldwater, delivered by Ronald Reagan. It was a variation of a speech called &quot;A Time ...]]></description><category>big government</category><category>freedom</category><category>history</category><category>reagan</category></item><item><title>Dismantling America</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://rgcombs.blog-city.com/dismantling_america.htm</guid><link>http://rgcombs.blog-city.com/dismantling_america.htm</link><pubDate>Wed, 28 Oct 2009 19:50:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://rgcombs.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=dismantling%5Famerica</comments><dc:creator>rgcombs</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Dr. Thomas Sowell: Just one year ago, would you have believed that an unelected government official, not even a Cabinet member confirmed by the Senate but simply one of the many &quot;czars&quot; appointed by the President, could arbitrarily cut ...]]></description><category>anticapitalism</category><category>big government</category><category>collectivism</category><category>obama</category><category>thomas sowell</category></item><item><title>Shocker! Mainstream news outlet uses phrase &quot;global cooling&quot;</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://rgcombs.blog-city.com/shocker_mainstream_news_outlet_uses_phrase_global_cooling.htm</guid><link>http://rgcombs.blog-city.com/shocker_mainstream_news_outlet_uses_phrase_global_cooling.htm</link><pubDate>Tue, 27 Oct 2009 20:28:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://rgcombs.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=shocker%5Fmainstream%5Fnews%5Foutlet%5Fuses%5Fphrase%5Fglobal%5Fcooling</comments><dc:creator>rgcombs</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[It&#39;s definitely a &quot;man bites dog&quot; event when a CBS-affiliated local TV news department headlines a story &quot;Global Cooling Causes Fish Kill In Cherry Creek&quot; DENVER (CBS4)  - A major fish kill was reported Tuesday afternoon in...]]></description><category>denver</category><category>environmentalism</category><category>journalism</category><category>media</category></item><item><title>Reality emulates Atlas Shrugged, example #739</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://rgcombs.blog-city.com/reality_emulates_shrugged_example_739.htm</guid><link>http://rgcombs.blog-city.com/reality_emulates_shrugged_example_739.htm</link><pubDate>Fri, 23 Oct 2009 03:56:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://rgcombs.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=reality%5Femulates%5Fshrugged%5Fexample%5F739</comments><dc:creator>rgcombs</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[With apologies to Martin Niemoller: First they went after executives at bailed-out companies, and I did not speak out because I was not an executive at one of those companies. President Barack Obama has welcomed plans to force some companies which...]]></description><category>anticapitalism</category><category>demagoguery</category><category>democrats</category><category>fascism</category><category>obama</category></item><item><title>Too cold for baseball</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://rgcombs.blog-city.com/too_cold_for_baseball.htm</guid><link>http://rgcombs.blog-city.com/too_cold_for_baseball.htm</link><pubDate>Sat, 10 Oct 2009 16:46:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://rgcombs.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=too%5Fcold%5Ffor%5Fbaseball</comments><dc:creator>rgcombs</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Tonight&#39;s Rockies-Phillies playoff game has been postponed because of weather: Game Three of the 2009 National League Division Series between the Philadelphia Phillies and the Colorado Rockies at Coors Field in Colorado has been postponed due ...]]></description><category>baseball</category><category>colorado</category><category>denver</category><category>weather</category></item><item><title>The Nobel joke</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://rgcombs.blog-city.com/the_nobel_joke.htm</guid><link>http://rgcombs.blog-city.com/the_nobel_joke.htm</link><pubDate>Fri, 09 Oct 2009 19:35:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://rgcombs.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=the%5Fnobel%5Fjoke</comments><dc:creator>rgcombs</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Having served ten days in office when nominations closed, President Obama has been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. I think he was nominated by Joe Biden. For being so clean and articulate. The Nobel committee lost all credibility when they awarded ...]]></description><category>cult of personality</category><category>obama</category></item><item><title>Free money from Obama&apos;s stash</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://rgcombs.blog-city.com/free_money_from_obamas_stash.htm</guid><link>http://rgcombs.blog-city.com/free_money_from_obamas_stash.htm</link><pubDate>Fri, 09 Oct 2009 05:49:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://rgcombs.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=free%5Fmoney%5Ffrom%5Fobamas%5Fstash</comments><dc:creator>rgcombs</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Remember when they promised us the $780 billion in &quot;stimulus&quot; spending would produce jobs, funding shovel-ready projects that would get the economy moving? Not in Detroit. There, they just created a lottery for free money. Instead of ...]]></description><category>democrats</category><category>free stuff</category><category>obama</category><category>socialism</category><category>spending</category><category>welfare</category></item><item><title>Ski season is here</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://rgcombs.blog-city.com/ski_season_is_here.htm</guid><link>http://rgcombs.blog-city.com/ski_season_is_here.htm</link><pubDate>Wed, 07 Oct 2009 03:55:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://rgcombs.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=ski%5Fseason%5Fis%5Fhere</comments><dc:creator>rgcombs</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[On the last day of summer, amidst unusually cold weather and an early natural snowfall, Loveland Ski Area fired up its snowmaking machinery. Tomorrow morning, it opens for the season: &quot;We took advantage of the cold temperatures and got an ...]]></description><category>colorado</category><category>global warming</category><category>mountains</category><category>skiing</category><category>snow</category></item><item><title>Doctoring the photo op</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://rgcombs.blog-city.com/doctoring_the_photo_op.htm</guid><link>http://rgcombs.blog-city.com/doctoring_the_photo_op.htm</link><pubDate>Tue, 06 Oct 2009 21:05:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://rgcombs.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=doctoring%5Fthe%5Fphoto%5Fop</comments><dc:creator>rgcombs</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[The President had quite a photo op in the Rose Garden yesterday. He was surrounded by 150 physicians in white lab coats as he made yet another pitch for a government-controlled health care system. At least we&#39;re told they were physicians, and ...]]></description><category>doctors</category><category>health care</category><category>obama</category></item><item><title>Such men</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://rgcombs.blog-city.com/such_men.htm</guid><link>http://rgcombs.blog-city.com/such_men.htm</link><pubDate>Mon, 05 Oct 2009 06:42:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://rgcombs.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=such%5Fmen</comments><dc:creator>rgcombs</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[This past weekend, eight American soldiers were killed and 24 wounded at Camp Keating, a remote outpost in Afghanistan. The Taliban forces used a mosque and a village as cover, and set a wildfire to force U.S. forces to retreat from their perimeter.]]></description><category>afghanistan</category><category>courage</category><category>heroism</category></item><item><title>Explaining that Olympic Committee decision</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://rgcombs.blog-city.com/explaining_that_olympic_committee_decision.htm</guid><link>http://rgcombs.blog-city.com/explaining_that_olympic_committee_decision.htm</link><pubDate>Sun, 04 Oct 2009 04:18:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://rgcombs.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=explaining%5Fthat%5Folympic%5Fcommittee%5Fdecision</comments><dc:creator>rgcombs</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[You may have seen this already via email. But it&#39;s too good not to post: Top ten reasons Chicago didn&#39;t get the 2016 Olympics 10. Dead people can&#39;t vote at IOC meetings. 9. Obama distracted by 25 min meeting with Gen. McChrystal. 8. Who]]></description><category>chicago</category><category>humor</category><category>olympics</category></item><item><title>Gandhi and Groucho</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://rgcombs.blog-city.com/gandhi_and_groucho.htm</guid><link>http://rgcombs.blog-city.com/gandhi_and_groucho.htm</link><pubDate>Fri, 02 Oct 2009 22:42:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://rgcombs.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=gandhi%5Fand%5Fgroucho</comments><dc:creator>rgcombs</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Today is the birthday of both Mohandas Gandhi and Julius &quot;Groucho&quot; Marx. In their honor, here is my favorite quote from each (but I&#39;m not going to tell you which is which). Among the many misdeeds of the British rule in India, history]]></description><category>gandhi</category><category>groucho</category><category>history</category><category>humor</category><category>quotes</category></item><item><title>Tea Party Express II</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://rgcombs.blog-city.com/tea_party_express_ii.htm</guid><link>http://rgcombs.blog-city.com/tea_party_express_ii.htm</link><pubDate>Thu, 01 Oct 2009 05:25:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://rgcombs.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=tea%5Fparty%5Fexpress%5Fii</comments><dc:creator>rgcombs</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[They haven&#39;t quit in Washington. They&#39;re still working hard to come up with a government-controlled health care plan, to enact a crippling cap-and-tax energy bill, to regulate and control ever more of our economic activities, and to make ...]]></description><category>big government</category><category>health care</category><category>obama</category><category>politics</category><category>public opinion</category><category>rally</category><category>socialism</category></item><item><title>Civilization against barbarism</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://rgcombs.blog-city.com/civilization_against_barbarism.htm</guid><link>http://rgcombs.blog-city.com/civilization_against_barbarism.htm</link><pubDate>Sat, 26 Sep 2009 05:25:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://rgcombs.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=civilization%5Fagainst%5Fbarbarism</comments><dc:creator>rgcombs</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[An excerpt from the one honorable and courageous speech at the U.N. this week, by Benjamin Netanyahu: Yesterday, the man who calls the Holocaust a lie spoke from this podium. To those who refused to come and to those who left in protest, I commend...]]></description><category>iran</category><category>islamofascism</category><category>israel</category><category>united nations</category></item><item><title>Obama lunch reform</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://rgcombs.blog-city.com/obama_lunch_reform.htm</guid><link>http://rgcombs.blog-city.com/obama_lunch_reform.htm</link><pubDate>Wed, 23 Sep 2009 06:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://rgcombs.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=obama%5Flunch%5Freform</comments><dc:creator>rgcombs</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[The health care &quot;reform&quot; ideas of Pres. Obama and congressional Democrats are rather complicated and hard to understand. So a metaphor would help. Maybe a metaphor applying the Obama health care principles to a more easily understood ...]]></description><category>democrats</category><category>health care</category><category>humor</category><category>obama</category></item><item><title>Brzezinski: protect our enemies from our friends</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://rgcombs.blog-city.com/brzezinski_protect_our_enemies_from_our_friends.htm</guid><link>http://rgcombs.blog-city.com/brzezinski_protect_our_enemies_from_our_friends.htm</link><pubDate>Mon, 21 Sep 2009 20:43:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://rgcombs.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=brzezinski%5Fprotect%5Four%5Fenemies%5Ffrom%5Four%5Ffriends</comments><dc:creator>rgcombs</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Zbigniew Brzezinski, who was National Security Advisor to America's Worst President (so far), is calling for the United States to come to the defense of Iran if it faces attack. No, really. I&#39;m not making this up. In the Bizarro World of today...]]></description><category>antisemitism</category><category>iran</category><category>israel</category><category>leftists</category></item><item><title>A great Broncos moment</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://rgcombs.blog-city.com/a_great_broncos_moment.htm</guid><link>http://rgcombs.blog-city.com/a_great_broncos_moment.htm</link><pubDate>Sun, 20 Sep 2009 06:12:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://rgcombs.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=a%5Fgreat%5Fbroncos%5Fmoment</comments><dc:creator>rgcombs</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Today&#39;s blowout victory over the Cleveland Browns was pretty satisfying, maybe even a bit surprising, given the low expectations many of us had for this team. The defense looked impressive &mdash; and Elvis Dumervil looked superhuman &mdash; agai]]></description></item><item><title>Avast! It be the 19th of Septembarrr!</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://rgcombs.blog-city.com/avast_it_be_the_19th_of_septembarrr.htm</guid><link>http://rgcombs.blog-city.com/avast_it_be_the_19th_of_septembarrr.htm</link><pubDate>Sat, 19 Sep 2009 17:54:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://rgcombs.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=avast%5Fit%5Fbe%5Fthe%5F19th%5Fof%5Fseptembarrr</comments><dc:creator>rgcombs</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Ahoy, me mateys, and a jolly International Talk Like a Pirate Day to ye! Get ye some grog and have a parrrty. Call someone a wench or a bilge rat. Take The Official Talk Like a Pirate Personality Inventory (TOTLAPPI) (but be sure to read to read ...]]></description><category>talk like a pirate</category></item></channel></rss>